(microbiology) The process by which certain yeasts decompose sugars in the absence of oxygen to form alcohol and carbon dioxide; method for production of ethanol, wine, and beer.
alcoholic fermentation
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- erythrozyme
- fermentation
- fusel oil (materials)
- bottom fermentation (food engineering)
- kanji
- glucose
- Eduard Buchner (German chemist)
- hyaline
- Sir Arthur Harden (British biochemist)
- wine (food engineering)
- Charles Cagniard de la Tour (French physicist)
- vinegar
- yeast (fungus)
- glycolysis (process – in microbiology)
